The 12 Most Bone-Chilling & Haunted Places in Alabama

 

Haunted places in Alabama open a doorway to a harrowing unknown — unexplained mysteries, terrifying ghostly encounters and paranormal entities clinging to their former lives. These apparitions lurk unseen, laying a dark, perturbing blanket over the atmosphere, heavy enough to keep you up all night. Some of us spend the month of October searching for this bone-chilling thrill, while others play it safe and just trick-or-treat. But, for those brave souls who celebrate Halloween seeking terror-filled, hair-raising scares, we bring you a few of the most haunted spots in Alabama. These are not for the faint of heart. Read on, if you dare …

12 of Alabama’s Most Haunted Places

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If These Walls Could Talk | 5 Historic Homes

 

In storied locations from Sag Harbor to Sonoma, these irreplaceable homes offer the opportunity to own a personal piece of American history.

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ROBERTSDALE, Ala. –As tourism season slowed and hurricane season began, the blazing hot housing market cooled in overall transactions for September 2020. Baldwin REALTORS® Multiple Listing Service (MLS) reports a year-over-year decrease in the total number of properties sold for the Resort area from 185 in September of 2019 to this year’s 143. Additionally, the Traditional Residential area of the county saw a slight increase of 2% as it rose from 424 total closed sales in September 2019 to 433 in 2020. The addition of new listings across the entire county also decreased in comparison with September 2019. This past month gained 575 new listings, where September of 2019 saw 727.

Even with the decrease in overall transactions, the Resort area of…

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Alabama may have celebrated its 200th birthday in 2019, but people have been calling the rolling tides of the Gulf Coast home for a whole lot longer.


Gulf State Park opened in 1939, but it took a little longer before the neighbors made it official. The two cities of Gulf Shores and Orange Beach that bookend the park are much younger. The City of Gulf Shores incorporated as the Town of Gulf Shores in 1956, while the City of Orange Beach incorporated as recently as 1984. But don’t let this apparent youth fool you, these communities have existed for many generations.


Baldwin County where the two communities and the park are located is older still. It’s the largest county in Alabama and was created by the Mississippi Territorial…

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A unique community of its kind on the Alabama Gulf Coast, Beach Village Resort introduces single-family residences in a multi- phase development. Residents and guests will enjoy a resort- style zero entry, heated and cooled salt water pool with lazy river and slide. Bring your own bike or enjoy our bike share program with community access to the Hugh S. Branyon back country trail system and elevated nature boardwalks. Beach Village Resort also offers deeded beach access with signaled crosswalk. Spread out among 67 individual privately owned lots, the residences of Beach Village reflect the coastal architectural influences of the iconic beach homes sprinkled along the Gulf Coast.
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(OBA®) – If there is one thing from the history of Orange Beach that people can point to today as a key to how this area developed, it’s Perdido Pass.

  A pass from Perdido Bay to the Gulf of Mexico has always been vital to the fishing business in Orange Beach. But its first location was close to where the Flora-Bama Lounge and Package Store is today.   According to “Orange Beach, Alabama, the Best Place to Be” by Margaret Childress Long and Michael D. Shipler, that first pass dates back to at least the 1830s. When Pleasure and Ono Islands were still part of the mainland. Book outlets.   “It was Point Ornocor, a peninsula extending from what is now Alabama Point, that is until the 1906 hurricane,” the pair wrote in the book. It…

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12,000 sq. ft. modern garage to house personal car collection of self-made entrepreneur who resides on the 5.5-mile long private Ono Island…

Mr. James (Jimmy) Harrell and his wife Tina are car enthusiasts who live on the 5.5-mile long private island of Ono Island, Alabama. 

Jimmy’s always had a love for cars – and his philosophy includes a blend of working hard and playing hard – but building his business from the ground up kept him too busy to allow himself to fully enjoy his passion and interests in cars.

Jimmy is a self-made individual who expanded his own business over a span of 44 years. His company, Industrial Sales and Service, sold and serviced valves to refineries, paper mills, power plants and chemical plants,…

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Pirates Cove

If you were to tell someone to meet you where Robert’s Bayou meets Arnica Bay, they’d probably ask, “Where’s that?” Tell them to meet you at Pirates Cove, however, and they’d ask, “What time?”

Many around here know that the legendary third-generation beach shack in Elberta has a history littered with bushwackers, cheeseburgers, sandy canines and salty regulars. But few know that the bar and restaurant wouldn’t be what it is today without Civil War privateers, a high-end Chicago hotel and a German immigrant initiative in Baldwin County.

Operated by brothers Paul and Karl Mueller (although ownership remains in the hands of their mother Eileen), Pirates Cove is a living tapestry of innumerable employees, regulars and “riff raff.” This is its…

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Andy Andrews

“Sometimes a thing is impossible until it’s actually done”

The sleepy little fishing town of Orange Beach, AL or as locals like to say, LA (Lower Alabama) has grown over the years as visitors come from all corners of the globe to experience what Andy Andrews has captured so well in his series of The Noticer, The Noticer Returns, and now the much anticipated “Just Jones” third edition that will be released on September 8th.  

The Alabama Gulf Coast has inspired the setting and characters of many of Andy’s books.  In most cases, the places and people in Andy’s books are real places and people within the community.  Andy gives credit for the inspiration of his books to the easy-going island life along with residents who have found their way to the…

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